Hammock-hook.



' F. R. ELD'RIDGE.

HAMMOOK HOOK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1910.

Patented Nov. 22-, 1910.

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FRANCIS R. ELDRIDGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAMMOCK-HODK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

Application filed March 12, 1910. Seria1 No. 548,808.

' a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of NewYork, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Hammock-Hook, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The invention is an improvement in hooks for attaching the suspendingcords to a hammock, particularly navy hammocks, which consists of alength of canvas having eyelets in the hem at each end.

The enlisted men of the navy service have two hammocks and are requiredat frequent periods to change the soiled hammock for the clean hammockand scrub the former. The hammocks are suspended by a number of cords ateach end, which pass from a ring and are tied at their free ends in theseveral holes or eyelets of the hammock. This re quires the tying anduntying of each cord when the hammock is changed. The holes in the hemof the clean hammock are often so shrunk as to cause considerabledifficulty in passing the ends of the cords through them; and then thefurther difliculty is encountered in tying all of the cords preciselyeven; 2'. 6., so that none of the cords are slack and others tight.There is little chance of perfect uniformity in the application of thecords, and as a result the extra weight thrown on the tighter cordscauses them to cut through the eyelets and soon render the hammockuseless but practically sound, except where out by the cords.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome thesedisadvantages, which I do by providing each suspending cord with a hookadapted to detachably engage in one of the eyelets of the hammock, thecord requiring no further adjustment after the hook is once applied, andthe hook being relatively stiff so as to be easily engaged in theeyelet, and of a form to prevent its accidental disengagement and causethe suspending cord to draw thereon in the plane of the canvas or othermaterial of which the hammock is made, the hook being preferablyconstructed of aluminum so as not to tarnish the eyelets of the hammock.

V Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of refer ence indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a plan of a hammock hook constructed in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 2 is a side view of the same; and Fig. 3 is afragmentary perspective view illustrating the application of the hook tothe hammock and suspending cord.

The hook in its preferred embodiment comprises a member 5, of wire,having one end turned inwardly in a lateral direction to provide a hook6, and the other end turned inwardly in a vertical direction to providea hook 7, the hooks being thus arranged in planes at approximatelyright-angles to each other. The point of the hook 7 is bent to form aneye 8 for receiving one of the suspending cords 9 of the hammock. Theend of this cord, as shown in' Fig. 3, after being passed through theeyelet and adjusted the proper length for the hammock,

is suitably secured, ordinarily to remain permanently attached, as bythe mousing and seizing shown. The eye 8, forming the point of the hook7, is preferably laterally bent, as best shown in Fig. 1, to bring itover the longitudinal center of the hook 6, so that the tension on thesuspending cord will not have a tendency to twist the hook in thehammock. The outer portion of the hook dis preferably bent slightlyupward toward the eye 8, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the suspending cordafter being en gaged in this hook, as shown in Fig. 3, will pass fromthe hammock in substantially the plane thereof, whereby the strain onthe suspending cord will not tend to pull the hook upwardly. Thisbending of the outer portion of the hook 6 also places the fork of thehook above its point, which obviously makes the accidental disengagementof the suspending cord less likely to occur.

In the use of the hooks, after they have been applied to the severalsuspending cords so as to give uniform strain on the hammock, each hookis engaged in its proper eyelet 10 of the hammock by first passing thepoint of the hook 6 through the eyelet and successively sliding the wirethrough until the eyelet is engaged with the hook 7, after which thesuspending cord is engaged in the hook 6.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A hammock hook comprising a wire member having one of its endsinwardly turned in a lateral direction and its other end inwardly turnedin a vertical direction to provide hooks, with one of the hooks havingan eye arranged to receive one of the suspending cords of thehammockpass ing through the other hook.

2. The combination of a hammock having an opening at the end, a memberhaving a hook at each 'end, with one of the hooks engaged within theopening of the hammock, and a suspending cord secured to the hookengaged in the hammock and passing through the said hook.

A hammock hook comprising a member having inwardly-turned hooks at itsopposite ends arranged at approximately rightangles to each other, withone of the hooks provided with an eye arranged to receive one of thehammock suspending cords passing through the other hook.

42. A hammock hook comprising a member having inwardly-turned hooks atits opposite ends, with the hooks arranged at ap- 7 proximatelyright-angles to each other and one of the hooks having an eyelet at thepoint laterally offset to lie approximately over the longitudinal centerof the other hook.

5. A hammock hook comprising a wire member having hooks at its oppositeends arranged in planes at approximately rightangles to each other, oneof the hooks having an eyelet arranged to receive one of the suspendingcords of the hammock pass- 'ing through the other hook, and the saidother hook having the outer portion slightly turned toward the eyelet.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANCIS R. ELDRIDGE.

WVitnesses F. V. HANAFORD, PHILIP D. ROLLHAUS.

